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Integrating Hybrid Exchange post Office 365 deployment
I've recently started at a new company and have taken over their Office 365 instance. The history is they had Exchange at one point. They used Skykick to migrate to Exchange Online and their consul...
You don’t need to offboard like another user stated. Install the Exchange server in your environment, which will require expanding your schema for it. Once that is done, check the box in AAD Connect for Exchange Hybrid. There, you are done and can manage your attributes with Exchange on Prem. You don’t need to build up any Hybrid connectivity, you are just using it for a management server. You will need to keep your Exchange server up to date though, so don’t forget to patch it.
- Thank you Paul. If we wanted to use it as an on premises relay though would we need to configure the hybrid feature?
- Nope. You will need to configure the on prem Exchange server to allow the incoming connection and then you can either send it straight out via MX lookup or you can relay it through O365 using this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/How-to-set-up-a-multifunction-device-or-application-to-send-email-using-Office-365-69f58e99-c550-4274-ad18-c805d654b4c4
Still don’t need Hybrid though. :-)- BTW, if you send straight out your on Orem server, don’t forget to update your SPF record so it doesn’t get flagged as spam.
